Re: Frivolous forking

[Mate Wierdl]

On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 10:17:26AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Simon Casady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > I have never understood this one.  The obvious answer is to put code
> > into qmail-start to read the password file for the proper ids and pass
> > them on to the programs it starts.  No config files, standard Unix
> > functions, no problems with binary installs.
> 
> And a potential network access on start to do NIS lookups.

If the above remark is not ironic: should not the qmail users/groups be
locally specified?  Is NIS secure?

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Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis